Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Duplicate Bridge: Oct. 15

The
Buffalo Spooktacular RegionalTournament
will take place Tuesday, Oct. 18, to Sunday, Oct. 23 in the Adam’s Mark
Hotel, 120 Church St., with pairs games and team games at 10 a.m., 3 p.m. and
7:30 p.m. Tuesday through next Saturday and Swiss teams at 10 a.m. next Sunday.
For more info, click this link.

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The
Airport Bridge Club will offer
extra-point games at noon today, Saturday, Oct. 15, and at 11 a.m. Monday,
Oct. 17.

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Western
New York Unit 116 regularly sponsors
special games. Currently they include:

The
Duplicate Bridge column is compiled weekly
by News Staff Reporter Dale Anderson. The print version normally appears in the
Life & Arts section in the Saturday edition of The Buffalo News. If it’s
not in its usual place, try the Sports section. If it doesn’t appear at all, go
to buffalonews.com and search
“Duplicate Bridge” plus the current Saturday date.

Sometimes
the online version does not materialize on the Buffalo News website, at least
not in a timely fashion. When that happens, like it did a couple times
recently, you can find it as an appendix to Dale Anderson’s bridge blog at http://newsdupli.blogspot.com/

The
online version contains unabridged scores and a longer list of notices.
Deadline for submission of scores and notices is Tuesday night.

A
Silver Life Master since 2011 and a Ruby Life Master since the ACBL created that new
master point rank at the beginning of 2016, Dale Anderson blogs about his
progress toward Gold Life Master (2,500
points) and other bridge adventures here.

About Me

Dean of Western New York rock critics. Chief rock & pop writer at Buffalo News for 20 years, helped establish weekend entertainment magazine Gusto. Original manager of Ani DiFranco -- first 4 years, first 5 CDs, set up the independent thing. Competitive bridge player since 2005. Second in nation in Ace of Clubs master point race in 2009 (300-500 point division). Eighth in 500-1000 point division in 2010. Finally got the Life Master Hat Trick -- basic, bronze and silver -- all at once on 11/10/11.